It has been very exciting to see so many of you online! I'm so proud of all your work and patiences as we roll out our new online learning platform. Remember you can email anytime with questions or if you need support. This week we have some exciting news!!! We will be having a google meet with our amazing Classroom Champions Mentor Brigette Lacquette on Wednesday May 13th at 1pm. Please email me if you are able to join us. We also have some great extension activities and additional websites you can use to support your ongoing learning from home. You now have the option of accessing additional learning resources through Mathletics and Epic books. Information on how to access and log in has been sent to your CBE gmail accounts. Please let me know if you are interested in using these additional resources and need any support. Please remember you can also access the resources listed in our previous blog posts to support family learning, student learning and activities that can be done together. Please reach out and feel free to email anytime. Take good care and stay safe! Ms. Emily
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Thank you all for your patience and understanding as we roll out our new way of learning. Our google classroom is set up and all your lessons are accessible through the classwork tab at the top of the page. If you have questions please reach out, I am here to support you, if you need anything at all please feel free to let me know. We will be continuing our weekly check-ins and I look forward to hearing for all of you!
If you are looking for further learning resources and tools here are some I recommend: The scholastic website is amazing lots of activities for all ages and grade levels: https://www.scholastic.com/home/ Also, The City of Calgary has some great activities that you can do with students and participate in as a family. Please check out their website for some great ideas and lessons: https://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Pages/At-Home-Activities/At-home-activities.aspx There are also great resources and online stories available through the Calgary Library - enjoy story time as a family: https://calgarylibrary.ca/read-learn-and-explore/library-at-home/ Please use theses resources to support your learning at home. Have fun and enjoy your time together. I will continue to post more resources and extension activities for you to access and participate in as a family. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Take good care and stay safe! Ms. Emily Important Learning Updates:
I have been and will continue to make phone calls and send out emails to all the students and families in room 32. My number may appear as blocked or unknown - Please answer as I just want to check-in and give you some learning updates. If I am unable to make contact through the phone I will be sending out emails. If your phone number has changes please contact the school so we can update our information. Please check your email when possible and feel free to email me or contact the school at 403-777-7860. I am thinking of all of you and miss you all so very much, please let me know if I can support you in anyway. You are in my thoughts and in my heart. Stay safe and take good care. Ms. Emily The grade 5's are so excited to share about their learning this week!
We had a busy week of learning at Piitoayis Family School. We have been working on a STEM project called, " The great chain race" where you have to build the longest chain with just a single piece of paper. Students have to measure, cut, compare and invent creative ways to build the longest chain. Students worked in teams and we compared and measured our chains using standard measurement, millimetres, centimetres and meters. We ordered the chains greatest to least and have begun to work on graphing , and examining our work by finding, the range of number measurements, the median number, mode number and mode. We will be using what we learn from this project to work on a school wide Tipi projects. We look forward to sharing more with you soon. We also had a great experience on the land when we went on a class community walk. We were focused on walking with purpose, showing Kakyosin and we made lots of amazing connections. We completed a walk along in the Inglewood Wilds park and discovered signs of life and changes in the weather. We made observations and had a wonderful class discussion and circle. We shared our school song with Na'a and enjoyed drumming together on the land. We are looking forward to move learning on the land and will keep you updated on our learning. Thanks so much for reading our blog! It has been a busy week at PFS! We have been busy showing acts of kindness and celebrating kindness in our community. We have to opportunity to contribute to our school wide assembly celebrating 100 acts of kindness. We had pictures, videos and helped MC the event. We had lots of fun! We got to play a school wide game in the gym and we helped support our grade 1 buddies during the assembly.
We have also been busy in math this week. We started a STEMS project. Our project is "The Great Chain Race" we are connecting measurement, shapes, graphing and number senses to this project. We have created some different paper chains and will be comparing, measuring and graphing our work. We are also continuing to practice building our mental math skills by developing our multiplication and division skills. We can't wait to share our work at student led conferences in March! We just started our Magnetism and Electricity unit in science. We learned about magnetic fields, south and north poles on magnets and the Earth, as well as, proper and safe use of electricity. We will be continuing our work and also looking at circuits. As a class we are still talking about our amazing trip to the central library. We had a guided tour, got to check out their resources, and got to share in some story telling activities. We learned so much and thank our fabulous volunteers to joining us, we couldn't have done it with out you! Thank you! In art we have been looking at the work of Ted Harrison and connecting it to lines, shape and colour. We will be continuing our work and sharing our learning with our grade 1/2 buddies. We had a great week full of lots of learning. Thank you for taking time to read our class blog! Thanks, Grade 5's It is almost Valentine's Day and we are so excited! We are celebrating kindness and acts of kindness in our school. We are completing paragraph writing and will be displaying our paragraphs on kindness. We recently had a special visit from a special hockey player. Sam Bennett came to our school and we got to be journalists and interview him. We learned so many interesting facts and will be completing newspaper articles about the visit. Over the weekend we held a very special ceremony at our school. In the gym we had the Beaver Bundle Ceremony. We learned so much and have been busy sharing all we saw, felt and heard. The grade 5's are very excited to being starting a unit on Medicine Wheel Warriors. We are learning about what it means to be a warrior and how we are all warriors. We have been having class circles, writing, discussions and visits from Elders to support our work. We will be sharing more soon! The Grade 5's also got to experience winter in their sit spots on the land. We have selected sit spots in our school yard where we can study and reflect and connect with the land. We are looking forward to going to our sit spot again and participating in community walks this month. Thank you for reading our blog we can't wait to share more learning with you soon! Have a great week, remember to show kindness and remember our value of Kimmapiiypitsinni. We are so excited to be back at school. We want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! We are continuing our work on Multiplication in math. We learned new multiplication math games today and we looked at how to multiply three digit numbers. We are learning our multiplication facts and this week we are focusing on the multiples of 3. Today we selected our new classroom jobs and discussed the different roles and responsibilities in our classroom. We had time to share, visit and catch up during our lunch and recess time. During our literacy work this morning we developed, examined and shared our goals, hopes and dreams for the new year. We also started our new reading groups for 2020! We selected new group novel study books and took time to preview our novels and develop questions. This week we will start to discuss, discover and create our own weather measurement tools in Science. This will support our work in weather for science this month. We have wrapped up our social studies work around the regions and created maps, did independent research and used our textbooks to expand on our learning. We shared our learning as a class. We are excited to begin to learn about the stories of the people of Alberta. This week we are getting back into our learning roles and routines and we look forward to sharing our learning with you again soon! Thanks and Happy New Year! From: PFS Grade 5 This week we have been busy learning all about multiplication. We have been practicing our facts and playing different math games to help build our fluency. In gym we are having so much fun snowshoeing. We are taking time on the land to see the changes in our community and school. We learned how to put on our snowshoes and have been really enjoying our time on the land. We completed our regions projects in social studies and we are wrapping up our weather unit in science. We are documenting weather and weather change and also learning about clouds. We have learned that you can study and watch clouds to help predict weather and weather changes. We also want to share that next week is our last week before the winter break. Thursday, December 19th is the last day of school. We have some exciting visitors coming to school next week! We can wait to share with you! Next week we will also start the week off with door decorating! We have completed some plans as a class and did some brainstorming so we can have our door decorated and ready for the last week before the break. We can wait to share our work with you next week! Have a great weekend! Grade 5 We are so excited to share our work and learning with you. We had a very busy and fun week filled with lots of different activities. We had two major highlights of the week that we want to share with you. This week we had our Winter Solstice Celebration as a school. We preformed a reader's theatre presentation. Everyone in our class played an important role in our production. We had actors, speakers, drummer, and our own videographer. We really had fun performing and connecting with our school community.
We are been working through our Classroom Champions lessons and just wrapped up our goal setting unit. We created individual short term and long term goals and we had the opportunity to share them with our amazing Classroom Champion Mentor, Brigette Lacquette. We are now working on our community unit. We will be brainstorming and finding different ways to help in our class and school community. We also had an amazing opportunity this week! We got to meet our Classroom Champion, Brigette, in person at school!! It was such a great experience. We had time to ask questions, share goals and even demonstrate some different math games. We also had a Teacher Vs. Students hockey game and the students won. We have been working hard on our weather unit in science and a learning about different weather instruments and how the land can show us sign of weather and weather change. We are excited to share some of our work with you. Here are some photos of our visit from Brigette, our Science work in weather and our goal setting work. Thanks so much! Grade 5 |
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